Tag: vision

I was rejected by the Famous Artists School because I was too young. The cutoff was 12-years old.

At that age, I was quite certain I would someday be a famous cartoonist for newspapers. I imagined it quite clearly. And when my career later took a turn toward cubicles, I woke up surprised every day that I wasn’t already a well-known cartoonist. (That is literally true.)

Tom Evslin at Fractals of Change offers six steps to victory for Winning the War on Terror. These ideas are probably too reasonable to be supported in Washington, where strategy is too often based on cliches and under-the-table profiteering.

Time’s up.I’m still not at all sorry Saddam was toppled.I still remember that he did not allow the UN inspections required to assure that he did not have WMD.That was his mistake and not ours.But creating a democracy in Iraq is a job for Iraqis.